Re: Debian packages containing large files

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 09:51:32AM -0700, Sammy Yu a écrit :
> 
>     I've created a debian package which has a large file that  is
> slightly over 2 gigs of ram in size.  When I try to install it on a
> system with 16 GB of RAM via dpkg -i.  It gives me
> 
> Unpacking replacement data-instance0 ...
> dpkg: error processing data-instance0-1.0-20081014.deb (--install):
>  failed to allocate buffer in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during
> `./var/lib/mysql/extdbfiles/0/archetype/table1.ibd'): Cannot allocate
> memory

Dear Sammy,

thanks for your pioneering work :) Maybe you can ask your question on
debian-dpkg@l.d.o and/or report a bug against dpkg?

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan